I am an indie game developer and pixel artist, sometimes I look for game assets here on itch but lately, it's been extremely difficult to find anything worthwhile to use in any project because of the sheer amount of AI slop that is being dumped onto itch in insane amounts. Lots of these people are frauds, and tag their stuff as no AI. 

I've called a few of them out about it, and they claim that they used the wrong tag on accident, right, all of them are somehow using the wrong no AI tag even though they are using AI for all their stuff. Some of them are more questionable, using AI slop and generative AI in the actual images of the marketing, but claim that they're not using it in their assets. Sorry if I don't believe them. It's hard to trust people that use that

It's really just such a shame, because it's really hard to find good assets now that are not just some generative AI pedaled asset flip where they are trying to claim they made something but instead what they really did was go to chat GPT or codex or something like that, and spend 5 minutes getting it to make a bunch of images and claim that this is worth $5 or $15. Truly egregious

Yeah the lying is terrible. I don't mind those that tag properly since they can be filtered in and out by people who want or don't want to use them, but those who refuse to tag properly and choose to lie are the worst and give AI creators a very bad name. People will start flaming all of all AI creators because they're fed up of the rampant poor behavior.

I feel more AI devs and AI creators also need to push back against these liars because they're the ones giving them such a bad rep.

It's going to get to the point where artists/musicians (and even coders?) will need to start recording their process from scratch, and uploading it with each asset.